BinPastes
Minimal pastebin supporting client-side encryption, fulltext search, one-time messages. Intended for one to few users looking for a simple pastebin deployment.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 18 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v1.0.707 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Pastebins: Pastebin alternatives.
At a glance
BinPastes quick facts
- Health score
- 61/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 19
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v1.0.707, Oct 2026
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Just put the JDK somewhere on your file system. The bin folder contains the java binary."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
BinPastes scores 61/100, #17 of 25 in Pastebins: 18 commits in the last 90 days earn 21.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v1.0.707, 26 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 19 stars add 5.2 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 14.8 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 21.0 / 35
18 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v1.0.707 released 26 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 5.2 / 20
19 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 18
- Last 90 days
- 74
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #17 of 25 tools in Pastebins by health , between Sup3rS3cretMes5age (#16) and Pastefy (#18) .
Details
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Platforms | Java |
| Latest release | v1.0.707 · 26 days ago |
| Stars | 19 |
| Open issues | 0 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | querwurzel/BinPastes ↗ |
BinPastes vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with BinPastes (Pastebins), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wastebin | 92 | 881 | MIT | 10 days ago |
| rustypaste | 82 | 1.2k | MIT | 4 days ago |
| BinPastes (this tool) | 61 | 19 | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Pastefy | 56 | 462 | MIT | 5 months ago |
| Chiyogami | 53 | 82 | BSD-3-Clause | 3 months ago |
| not-th.re | 53 | 17 | AGPL-3.0 | 24 days ago |
BinPastes: common questions
Is BinPastes still maintained?
BinPastes had 18 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, v1.0.707, is from 26 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.